17 Quotes by R.D. Blackmore

The love of all things was upon me, and a softness to them all, and a sense of having something even such as they had.

I for my part was most thankful that I had not killed. For to have the life of a fellow-man laid upon one’s conscience – deserved he his death, or deserved it not – is to my sense of right and wrong the heaviest of all burdens; and the one that wears most deeply inwards, with the dwelling of the mind on this view and on that of it.

Either love me not at all, or as I love you, for ever.

There is nothing in this world to fear, nothing to revere or trust, nothing even to hope for; least of all, is there aught to love.

Least said soonest mended, because less chance of breaking.

May be we are not such fools as we look. But though we be, we are well content, so long as we may be two fools together.

Be-or, be-or, be-or, all day long, with you Englishmen!′ ‘Nay,’ I replied, ’not all day long, if madam will excuse me. Only a pint at breakfast-time, and a pint and a half at eleven o’clock, and a quart or so at dinner. And then no more till the afternoon; and half a gallon at supper-time. No one can object to that.

If I cared for influence – which means, for the most part, making people do one’s will, without knowing it – my first step toward it would be to be called, in common parlance, “slow but sure.